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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Every little deed counts.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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